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Resumen

The critical review of modern architectu
re's city arisen at sixties and seventies resulted in a
recovery of some characteristic subjects of traditional models and established a new historical
dimension. Within this context, the role of the public building has became one of the key in the
city's conception and operation. Th
e reflections on its role to articulate urban structure
, its
ability to characterize the public space, or its symbolic function due to the change of the classical
language by the modern abstraction, therefore, have defined a the
oretical corpus which has
served to the practice in the definition of urban areas with higher civic and collective content.
After a enough historical distance, from a critical review of this debate as well as a study and
comparison of paradigmatic cases, t
he article's aim is to deduce some guidelines and tools to act
in the contemporary city.